log4j TCP SyslogAppender

The current SyslogAppender in log4j uses UDP to transmit the logs to syslog server. It potentially has risks of losing data and our ops guy was looking for a TCP based appender and ran into this http://www.rsyslog.com/tcp-syslog-rfc5424-log4j-appender/ and plugged it in. Then something weird happen as an appnode would keep running out of file handles and other app node ran into issue where all threads were stuck. The implementation at this link is buggy so I rewrote this and publishing here in case anyone is interested. /**  * TCP appender to syslog. This class uses a blocking queue with 10K message capacity and any requests beyond that would be rejected.  * The append method from all caller threads inserts the message into blocking queue and there is a single background thread that logs to the syslog.  * This complex queueing is introduced to relieve the user thread as soon as possible.  *  *  */ public class Syslog4jTCPAppender extends Syslog4jAppender {     private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;     private static ThreadLocal dateFormat = new ThreadLocal() {         @Override         protected SimpleDateFormat initialValue() {             SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z'");             df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));             return df;         }     };     private Map facilitiesMap = new HashMap();     private String localHost;     private BlockingQueue blockingQueue = new ArrayBlockingQueue(10000);     @Override     public void activateOptions() {         super.activateOptions();         String[] facilities = { "KERN", "USER", "MAIL", "DAEMON", "AUTH", "SYSLOG", "LPR", "NEWS", "UUCP", "CRON", "AUTHPRIV",                 "FTP", "LOCAL0", "LOCAL1", "LOCAL2", "LOCAL3", "LOCAL4", "LOCAL5", "LOCAL6", "LOCAL7" };         int[] facIntArray = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 };         for (int i = 0; i < facilities.length; i++) {             facilitiesMap.put(facilities[i], facIntArray[i]);         }         try {             localHost = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName();         } catch (UnknownHostException e) {             System.out.println("UnknownHostException" + e.getMessage());             localHost = "Unknown";         }         SocketLoggerThread socketLoggerThread = new SocketLoggerThread();         socketLoggerThread.setDaemon(true);         socketLoggerThread.start();     }     @Override     protected void append(LoggingEvent event) {         int priority = calcPriority(event);         String trace = super.layout.format(event);         String newLineChar = "\n";         String msg = trace.replaceAll(newLineChar, " ");         Date dt = new Date();         String dateString = dateFormat.get().format(dt);         String message = "<" + priority + ">" + dateString + " " + localHost + " " + super.getIdent() + ": " + msg + "\n";         blockingQueue.offer(message);     }     private int calcPriority(LoggingEvent event) {         String facility = super.getFacility().toUpperCase();         Integer facPriority = facilitiesMap.get(facility);         if (facPriority == null) {             facPriority = 1;         }         int level = event.getLevel().getSyslogEquivalent();         int priority = facPriority * 8 + level;         return priority;     }     private class SocketLoggerThread extends Thread {         private Socket socket;         private DataOutputStream os;         private int counter;         @Override         public void run() {             reinit();             while (true) {                 try {                     consume(blockingQueue.take());                 } catch (InterruptedException e) {                     System.out.println("Syslog socket logger interrupted while waiting" + e.getMessage());                 } catch (Exception e) {                     System.out.println("Unknown exception " + e.getMessage());                 }             }         }         private void close() {             try {                 if (os != null) {                     os.close();                 }             } catch (IOException e) {                 System.out.println("IOException closing os" + e.getMessage());             }             try {                 if (socket != null) {                     socket.close();                 }             } catch (IOException e) {                 System.out.println("IOException closing socket " + e.getMessage());             }         }         private void reinit() {             close();             try {                 socket = new Socket(Syslog4jTCPAppender.super.getSyslogHost(), Integer.parseInt(Syslog4jTCPAppender.super.getPort()));                 os = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());             } catch (IOException e) {                 System.out.println("IOException opening socket" + e.getMessage());             }         }         private void consume(String message) {             try {                 counter++;                 os.writeUTF(message);                 if (counter % 5000 == 0) {                     System.out.println("Reiniting syslog socket");                     reinit();                     counter = 0;                 }             } catch (IOException e) {                 System.out.println("IOException writing message" + e.getMessage());                 reinit();             }         }     } }